Sentences with phrase «about public school achievement»

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Drawing an emotional response from the audience, more than a dozen Chicago Public School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this month.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

Parents worry about funding and standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by High Achievement New York and Achieve found.

Bill Gates» philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is making an about - face on its education priorities to focus on networks of traditional public schools aimed at improving student achievement.

About the Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievAchievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievAchievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievementachievement gaps.

Linamen credits some of the school's achievements to the Somerset County Public Schools, which she says has the support of wonderful parents and community members, a central office staff that is supportive of new initiatives, and board members and a superintendent who care about each and every child in the system.

While we encourage readers to be cautious about applying our findings without qualification to all public schools, we also encourage school districts to support research that can identify middle - school effects in other settings, especially since we find the consequences of attending a middle school for student achievement to be substantial and troubling.

Overall, the foundation is spending about $ 20 million a year to «leverage change in public education — especially in schools serving disadvantaged students — through large strategic investments in a small number of initiatives that bolster student achievement.»

The addition of about seven public schools with McKay funding within five miles of a public school improved the academic achievement of special education students by about.05 of a standard deviation.

Charters nationally are producing student achievement gains that are very similar to the levels in traditional public schools but receive about 30 percent less money per pupil.

For middle - and high - school levels, the research team found that achievement gains in charter schools and traditional public schools were about the same, with two exceptions.

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But the U.S. lags behind other developed countries in student achievement, about 1 million students are on charter school waiting lists nationwide, and many student groups are still underserved by all public schools, traditional and charter.

The nearly 200 participants at the Sept. 11 - 13 National Congress for Public Education in suburban Washington were urged to undertake their own campaigns to promote the value of public education and offset any misinformation about the achievements of scPublic Education in suburban Washington were urged to undertake their own campaigns to promote the value of public education and offset any misinformation about the achievements of scpublic education and offset any misinformation about the achievements of schools.

The findings reported above represent the first systematic evidence that Americans» perceptions of the quality of their local public schools reflect publicly available information about the academic achievement of the students who attend them.

Over the last decade, research in public education has led us to three conclusions about the teaching profession: teachers are the most important in - school factor in determining student achievement; there is wide variation in teacher effectiveness; and those differences really matter for kids.

Caroline Hoxby's «remarkable study» of New York City's charters, as John Merrow describes it (see here) would surely suggest that they do: «The lottery winners [those who attended the charters] went to 48 public charter schools, and those who finished 8th grade performed nearly as well as students in affluent suburban districts, closing what the researchers call the «Harlem - Scarsdale achievement gap» by 86 percent in math and about two - thirds in English.»

Bernard Koontz acts as the language learning director at Highline Public Schools, a district with 39 schools in the Puget Sound area, and talks about bilingual education and closing the achievemeSchools, a district with 39 schools in the Puget Sound area, and talks about bilingual education and closing the achievemeschools in the Puget Sound area, and talks about bilingual education and closing the achievement gap.

Given the positive rhetoric about charter schools being able to «beat the odds» one might expect their achievement profile on the SAT to be significantly higher than the achievement found in public high schools located in either «A» or «B» communities.

As Baltimore City Public Schools began searching last year for a new leader, the Fund for Educational Excellence, a nonprofit working to secure resources needed to improve student achievement in the city schools, recognized that we knew very little about how community members viewed the major educational reforms that had taken place over the previous six years when Andrés Alonso was at thSchools began searching last year for a new leader, the Fund for Educational Excellence, a nonprofit working to secure resources needed to improve student achievement in the city schools, recognized that we knew very little about how community members viewed the major educational reforms that had taken place over the previous six years when Andrés Alonso was at thschools, recognized that we knew very little about how community members viewed the major educational reforms that had taken place over the previous six years when Andrés Alonso was at the helm.

In its letter, NSBA took the opportunity to inform the conversation about the efficacy of school choice on student achievement and school performance and highlight several options that are currently offered by public school districts; from local magnet schools and charter schools authorized by local school boards to public specialty schools, such as military academies and those offering specialized curricula for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Your report about the growing achievement gap between white and African - American students over 20 years of «reform» in the Chicago Public Schools reaffirms our organization's strong opposition to one of the most harmful of these initiatives, the practice of flunking students based on their scores on the annual state tests.

The documented results of these programs, together with the growing research on public alternative schools (Kleiner, Porch, & Farris, 2002), provide a knowledge base about comprehensive approaches to increasing both academic achievement and high school completion rates — which generally go hand in hand.

Though voucher school proponents love to talk about «choice» and «achievement,» the real story is that these schools do a serious disservice to students, families, educators, public school districts and state taxpayers and we don't want anymore of them in Milwaukee!

Test - based student achievement measures show that, on average, charter schools perform just about as well as their peers in traditional public schools.

For the past year in almost every available venue, opponents of high stakes standardized assessments of public school student achievement have been droning on about the perceived oppression of the Texas public school accountability system, which has been rated by national education organizations as having produced the best high school graduation standard in the country when fully implemented.

The NCES said it conducted the report because of growing concerns about resegregation in the nation's public school system, and it hoped to shed more light on how segregation affects the achievement of minority students.

Before the meeting, parents, teachers and public school advocates will hold a press conference about Kishimoto's plan to close Clark School and hand it over to Achievement First,school advocates will hold a press conference about Kishimoto's plan to close Clark School and hand it over to Achievement First,School and hand it over to Achievement First, Inc..

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In a must read story on today's The Naked City Blog, Daniel Denvir writes that «the remaining schools would get chopped up into «achievement networks» where public or private groups compete to manage about 25 schools, and the central office would be chopped down to a skeleton crew of about 200.

Grant notes that pushing for diversity in public schools is about more than closing achievement gaps: «The goal is to provide more opportunities for people to freely associate across racial, ethnic, and economic lines» (p. 184).

Furthermore, the percentage of Achievement First students who need special education services is about half the percentage that attends Hartford's public schools.

California public schools annually provide information about their district school sites to the community allowing the public to evaluate and compare schools for student achievement, environment, resources, and demographics.

Asked about the role of independent public charter schools in K - 12 education in Georgia, Governor Deal said, «Innovation, flexibility and accountability are fundamental building blocks to driving student achievement in K - 12 education, and charter schools are catalysts for improvement and reform within a system that has long been burdened by bureaucracy and inflexibility due to top - down control.»

Today, Tennessee's charter school movement — which serves more than 35,000 students across 112 schools — has revolutionized traditional thinking about public schools and helping students reach new heights of achievement while also paving the way for enhanced innovation in K - 12 education.

Cotto posed a question about the arrangement in the MOU between Achievement First and Hartford Public Schools which says that the charter school's test scores will be included in the data for that of Hartford Public Schools.

«What's Public About Charter Schools: Lessons Learned About Choice and Accountability,» is a book on Michigan charter schools and addresses student achievement, finance, equity, innovation and customer satisfSchools: Lessons Learned About Choice and Accountability,» is a book on Michigan charter schools and addresses student achievement, finance, equity, innovation and customer satisfschools and addresses student achievement, finance, equity, innovation and customer satisfaction.

For example, in order to address concerns about the fairness of using student test scores to evaluate teachers, Hillsborough County Public Schools, in Tampa, Florida, decided early on to focus on the growth in test scores between two points in time rather than a static achievement measure captured only once a year.

If «proficient» and «highly proficient» are achievement labels that should be reserved for students likely to go to a four year college or university, then education reform advocates have never effectively made that case to the public, preferring instead to point to the results on state testing that have been designed with this specific result in mind and declaring themselves correct about how poor a job our nation's schools are doing.

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«This... resulted in districts throughout Illinois holding high school students to different academic content and achievement standards in reading / language arts and mathematics... based solely on their zip code, and afforded inconsistent information to parents and the public about student achievement among districts in Illinois.»

Among those raising concerns about the Achievement First Inc. project during the public portion of last night's meeting were Dave Cicarella, the President of the New Haven Federation of Teachers and Keisha Hannans of the New Haven School Administrators Association.

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Although corporate education reformers love to talk about providing students with «school choice,» this latest effort to put another Achievement First, Inc. school in the North - end would mean that the children of Clark any remaining public school children would be provided «choice,» as long as their «choice» was a charter school.

This battle isn't about Clark School's failure... it is about closing a Hartford public school so that Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, can get a second Hartford school — and a free school building atSchool's failure... it is about closing a Hartford public school so that Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, can get a second Hartford school — and a free school building atschool so that Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, can get a second Hartford school — and a free school building atschool management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, can get a second Hartford school — and a free school building atschool — and a free school building atschool building at that.

About a third of the state's public schools met goals this year for academic achievement and closing gaps in school performance between whites and minority students.

As a public charter school, student achievement data about Making Waves Academy is available on the California Department of Education website (www.cde.ca.gov).

To some Hoosiers, worries about school funding and student achievement are secondary to questions about the effect that vouchers might have on public education's role as a civic institution.

Critics argue the achievement levels at charter schools are about the same as traditional public schools, but Kirkwood says most charter schools are outperforming the district averages in Rochester.

In this session with Mesa Public Schools» programs and experience being the backdrop, best practices and learnings about the powerful impact of family and cultural connections on student engagement, achievement and personal success will be explored.